Descriptive Quote from Designer Today:
“DesignerToday is a free online graphic design magazine. Here you will find hundreds of graphic design and related tutorials, hundreds of design software and hardware reviews as well as the latest in industry news. You will find just about everything you can imagine related to graphic design here on DesignerToday.”
All I can say is I bookmarked this site several times. What a great site—Well worth MANY visits.
One of the first commercial demontration of a super efficient air conditioning system is taking place a Mt. Saint Vincent Scool in NW Denver. So far, this new product shows an outstanding saving for cooling (80.2 percent less power than convential A/C.) This is not a typo and the product delivers what is promised. Coolerado will have residential Units are ready for a rollout within the next few month—The commercial units are already available.
This will be a giantic contribution to the enviroment due to the collective future savings in energy needed for cooling and, needless to say, will take reduce pollutants.
For informaion, visit: http://www.coolerado.com/Products/Products.htm
Builders Without Borders is an international network of ecological builders working together for a sustainable future. This organization has an Excellent collection of links on:
Natural Building,
Solar Energy,
Permaculture,
and Strawbale Construction.
Want to see the current sun spots or inquired about the latest space weather including solar wind?
The SOHO site has it all. Thanks to Marguerite Herff for pointhing this site.
Bagelhole.org is a site designed to “... Increase Awareness about low tech sustainability.” What a great site! It is an information gold mine; a site that will have a definite impact on a lot of us who are concerned of the sustainability of the human race.
Yes, the title is not a typo. Frankly, I never expected this development. Who would had thought that concrete would transmit light. Actually, it is not the concrete which transmits light but is an array of parallel optical fibers which run between the inside and outside surfaces without degrading the strength of the concrete.
It is not perfect but this new concrete, to be released by the inventor later this year, is bound to have some profound effects on new uses for concrete.
Find out how brain scans that “spy” on the Senses.
New imaging techniques have made a tremendous impact on the understanding as to which region of the brain is being affected by different Senses. New techniques now being developped will have even greater impact on the medical “understanding” of what is going on below our scalps. This site [
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/f110.html ] explores the science of the Senses. When I say, “this site”, it does not mean a casual site. This is the site of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The opening page is at: http://www.hhmi.org/
Link to a superb reference site. This one really belongs as icon for quick access from your desktop. It is that useful!
Public Databases Resources
Pacific Information Resources, Inc. DBA Search Systems has over 3936 Free Searchable Public Record Databases for the United States and Canada. The data available varies from state to state or from province to province.
http://www.pac-info.com/index.php
Statistical Cornucopia
Compliment of The University of Michigan, this site contains all sorts of statistical resources. Need to know about cost of living, curfews, global warming, immigration, plus many many other type of data.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
Yep! That’s the name of the site, “A barrel of Genealogy Links.” If you are a genealogy buff, this is akin to a sugar addict being in large candy store. This sites has received multiple awards and was also mentioned in the TV History Channel.
Create your own internet radio station!
Check this out …. close to 30,000 radio station links are contained on this site. Not only that, they have, as an option, their own plugin player which seem to work very well. Also, Live365 provides the easiest path to broadcasting – they supply powerful and easy to use broadcasting tools, and all the bandwidth and storage space that you need. All you have to do is provide the content – the messages and music that you want to send out to listeners across the globe.
Wow Now with more than 3000 places to compare, will you be able to find your dream place—your “quasi-heaven” on earth. So what! how many of us have the luxury to pickup our root and displace them to some moving target! In this fast moving world, all it takes a couple of cancerous politician to move a place from heaven to hell, right? Besides, Home is what you make it. Furthermore, the “calculations” leave some very important factors—what is the best state to live in. Yes, I can name about a dozen states in the United States that I would even refuse to cross, let alone live it. After all. when push comes to shove, state laws has a bigger impact on your live. Yet, you cannot find a “Best State” review anywhere, let alone the “Best County” review. The Department of States has some information, but it is quality of life we are talking about—enough said. And, having said all that, the “best places” review at http://www.bestplaces.net/ is a start!
Here is a link to a serie of 26 slides on fallacious arguments. These slides were obviously made for a course at St Clouds University. The slides are very well done—they are concise and to the point—like all slides should be. Why should you visit the site and learn a few things? Because, the content will help you spot appeals and argument that are erroneous, and ,you will be better able to spot snow-jobs as well as enhance your ability to defend yourself.
http://alc.stcloudstate.edu/presentations/FallaciousArguments/sld001.htm
Ready? Fire all your neurons and be prepared to shift them in high gear. Here is a site that will preoccupy you for up teen days, to say the least. What feeds this site? As they say in their logo:
“... To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, to see out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.”
Don’t miss this one. There is a lot of brain-food in there!
A quote from the about page of edge.org:
“Edge Foundation, Inc., was established in 1988 as an outgrowth of a group known as The Reality Club. Its informal membership includes of some of the most interesting minds in the world.
The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.”
When Bad Things Happen To Your Good Name
If you don’t read anything else on this site, at least read this. Your ID is everything for you—it is YOU —and some people may be after that ID. Protect yourself. If anybody contacts you and ask to verify information on file, be wary … read on…
Telemarketers always use a script: why shouldn’t you? If you know what the US laws are, you can really create havoc with those who dare call you at the most inopportune time.
Home Improvement How-To Info and Home Repair Tips to help answer basic questions. Includes a Community Forums hosted by experts dedicated to giving you the info you need to do any Home Repair or Home Improvement project right. Ask Questions and Get Answers
Liars Beware—What you say and how you say it may tell all!
We all know about the the use of the polygraph for detecting deception. Mind you, there a large tool collection for detecting lies: body language, voice stress analysis, and pupil dilation, just to name a few. However, there is one method which rapidly gaining ground, it a method called SCAN (Scientific Content ANalysis.) This method is based on linguistics and may amaze you. According to some, the method is excellent in proving a “head-up’ type signal to guide interrogators in the proper line of questioning. Be alert, SCAN can be used anywhere without you being aware that you are being scrutinized.
Note: Unfortunately the original link was either moved or deleted by the publisher of this artice has moved things around. Subsequent searched led to the following links:
L.S.I Scan did not escape the attention of the people responsible for the Skeptic Dictionary:
http://skepdic.com/refuge/scan.html
Check out: The LSI laboratory for Scientific Interrogation at: http://www.lsiscan.com/
Our brain’s direct action makes us “mirror” other people emotions
A theory called “mirror neuron” has gained support and has deep implications on our evolutionary language development. “Mirror neurons” are a brain “short-cuts” which start in the part of the brain responsible for the recognition of faces and facial expressions. What is interesting is that these “mirror neurons” bypass consciousness and generate “mimicking” action. Our subconscious has direct minor control of our facial expression. This goes a long way in explaining why people get “intuitive” feeling about specific persons when they are face-to-face and also explains why we get the feeling of empathy. If a person has empathy, he also has “knowledge” of the other person’s state of mind. All this has great implications as to what is behind some people who have “mind reading” abilities. This whole process is still not very well understood.
As a starting point, please check the following web site:
http://www.nlptoday.com/Ezine_April2001_Mirroring.htm
http://www.anticipation.info/texte/gallese2/Gallese&Goldman.pdf
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_p2.html
Knowing the science of color is a powerful tool in any presentation. I need not mention the effects of colors on clothing, packaging, home decoration, oil paintings amongst many other. Indeed, our choice of colors affects how we feel but also make strong statements to other.
In marketing strategy, use of appropriate colors is extremely important BECAUSE it is a primary component of “first-impression”. Quoting http://www.netwrite-publish.com , “being (color) the first thing we notice and the last thing we forget.”
Http://www.netwrite-publish.com provides Resources and information for entreprenuerial home business writers and self-publishers. You will find that a quick visit to this site will contribute to your understanding of “Color-impacts.”